{"id":2937,"date":"2016-06-03T17:22:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T17:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2017-03-22T14:52:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T14:52:45","slug":"jared-freilich-16-signs-with-the-university-of-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2016\/06\/03\/jared-freilich-16-signs-with-the-university-of-kentucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Freilich ’16 Signs with the University of Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jared Freilich ’16, center, with his parents, Lisa and Andrew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jared Freilich of Worcester, a starting pitcher on Williston Northampton School\u2019s Varsity Baseball team for one year, has signed a letter of intent to play for the University of Kentucky<\/a> this fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cJared worked very hard in the fall and winter preparing for the season,\u201d said his coach, Matthew Sawyer. Freilich had a back injury several years ago and needed to condition to prepare for play. \u201cThen, he worked at his mechanics and now uses his 6\u20195\u201d frame very well,\u201d Sawyer added.<\/p>\n

The University of Kentucky Wildcats play in the Southeastern Conference<\/a> of the NCAA<\/a>, one of the best baseball conferences in the country. The team will play more than 50 games in a season and will travel throughout the nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cJared uses his height and strength as a pitcher very well,\u201d said coach Sawyer. \u201cHe has a very good fastball and a plus curve ball. He is a competitor on<\/em> the mound, and an excellent teammate off<\/em> of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freilich\u2019s mother, Lisa Freilich, said that since Jared was a Babe Ruth League<\/a> player as a child, \u201cHe\u2019s been a quintessential baseball player.\u201d She said his goal is to play major league baseball, and heading south to play for the Wildcats takes him closer to that goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year has been great for him,\u201d she added about his postgraduate year at Williston. \u201cHe flourished and was supported. He gained independence and confidence. His coaches did an incredible job with him. They stuck with him when he struggled and figured out how to correct what was wrong.\u201d She added he made some great friends, calling it, \u201ca true brotherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

See more photos of Jared’s signing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jared Freilich of Worcester, a starting pitcher on Williston Northampton School\u2019s Varsity Baseball team for one year, has signed a letter of intent to play for the University of Kentucky this fall. \u201cJared worked very hard in the fall and winter preparing for the season,\u201d said his coach, Matthew Sawyer. Freilich had a back injury … Continue reading Jared Freilich ’16 Signs with the University of Kentucky<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}